July 15, 2026
Do your homework before your local match asks, advises Evanston RoundTable's Karen Demorest.
December 20, 2024
In a remote Alaskan village, where election information is often as sparse as winter daylight, a newsroom’s voter guide bridged a critical information gap — offering details about ballot initiatives that had never before reached the community as an easy-to-follow guide. Meanwhile, in the plains of South Dakota, a local newsroom’s alliance with a state […]
October 21, 2024
“I like to say, we don’t compete, we complete.” That’s how Ron Smith, executive director of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, describes his newsroom’s long standing relationship with the statewide outlet Wisconsin Watch, which culminated in a formal merger announced this September. After years of collaborating on innovative projects like the News414 text reporting system, which […]
August 15, 2024
About a third of nonprofit news outlets are using artificial intelligence to benefit their organization, according to survey data from the Institute for Nonprofit News’ annual Index survey. By this time next year, this AI-using cohort will likely grow to more than half of the sector. Today, drafting fundraising emails, scraping databases, translating stories and aggregating […]
April 10, 2024
In the fall of 2022, Arizona Luminaria, a digital local news outlet, launched in Tucson. It aimed to inform residents about local and state issues, with a focus on immigrant communities. The previous year in Madison, Wisconsin, Isthmus, a decades-old newspaper covering local news and culture, had converted to a nonprofit. As they prepared to […]
February 2, 2024
In June 2023, Juan Moreno Haines was up for parole after 27 years of incarceration. He had a job lined up as editor-in-chief at Solitary Watch, a watchdog news organization that reports on harsh conditions of isolation in prisons and jails. But he was denied parole and sent back to San Quentin State Prison. He […]
January 12, 2024
The signs are increasingly clear that the pipelines for free organic audience growth are going to keep contracting over the next year. That means news organizations need to be savvier about capturing the audience that is out there looking for their reporting and smarter about finding the audience that would love certain reporting if they […]
November 20, 2023
Over the past few years, many companies and institutions have been moving away from simple “checkbox diversity” — a question of demographics — toward practices that focus on equity and inclusion. This newer approach looks at diversity, equity and inclusion not as an initiative within an organization but as a value system implemented throughout the […]
September 7, 2023
Nonprofit newsrooms redefine relationships between readers and media organizations, engaging them through loyalty, community, and service.
May 26, 2023
INN Network outlets spoke about furthering understanding of mental health issues and producing solutions-oriented stories that spark conversation.
From local news to in-depth reporting on pressing global issues, INN’s 500 members tell stories that otherwise would go untold – connecting communities, holding the powerful accountable, and strengthening civic life.
